Nuclear energy encyclopedia
Subtitle: science, technology, and applications
By: edited by Steven B. Krivit, Jay H. Lehr, Thomas B. Kingery
Series: Wiley series on energy
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
ISBN-13: 9780470894392; 9781118043493; 9781118043479; 9781118043486
Subjects: Nuclear energy; Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Steven B. Krivit; title: Introduction / Jay Lehr; title: Contributors; title: Nuclear fission: glossary and acronyms / K. Anantharaman [et. al.]; title: Nuclear fusion: glossary and acronyms / Lester M. Waganer; title: Part I: General concepts; title: Nuclear energy: past, present, and future / Jar Lehr; title: Benefits and role of nuclear power / Patrick Moore; title: Early history of nuclear energy / Roger Tilbrook; title: Early commercial development of nuclear energy / Roger Tilbrook; title: Basic concepts of thermonuclear fusion / Laila A. El-Guebaly; title: Basic concepts of nuclear fission / Pavel V. Tsvetkov; title: Oklo natural fission reactor / L.V. Krishnan; title: Electrical generation from nuclear power plants / Pavel V. Tsvetkov, David E. Ames II; title: Nuclear energy for water desalination / Saly T. Panicker, P.K. Tewari; title: Nuclear energy for hydrogen generation / Alistair I. Miller; title: Part II: Nuclear fission; title: Uranium-plutonium nuclear fuel cycle / Shoaib Usman; title: Global perspective on thorium fuel / K. Anantharaman, P.R. Vasudeva Roa; title: Design principles of nuclear materials / Baldev Raj, M. Vijayakshmi; title: Nuclear fuel reprocessing / Carlos H. Castaño; title: Safety of nuclear fission reactors: learning from accidents / J.G. Marques; title: Spent fuel and waste disposal / Clifford Singer, William R. Roy; title: Fission energy usage: status, trands and applications / Pavel V. Tsvetkov; title: Part III: Fission : broad application reactor technology; title: Light-water-moderated fission reactor technology / J'Tia P. Taylor, Roger Tilbrook; title: CANDU pressurized heavy water nuclear reactors / Rusi P. Taleyarkhan; title: Graphite-moderated fission reactor technology / Pavel V. Tsvetkov; title: Status of fast reactors / Baldev Raj, P. Chellapandi; title: Review of generation-III/III+ fission reactors / J.G. Marques; title: Tomorrow's hope for a pebble=bed nuclear reactor / Jay Lahr; title: Hydrogeology and nuclear energy / Roger Henning; title: Part IV: Fission : Gen IV reactor technology; title: Introduction to generation-IV fission reactors / Harold McFarlane; title: The very high temperature reactor / Hans D. Gougar; title: Supercritical water reactor / James R. Wolf; title: The potential use of supercritical water-cooling in nuclear reactors/ Igor Pioro; title: Generation-IV gas-cooled fast reactor / J'Tia P. Taylor; title: Generation-IV sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFR) / Robert N. Hill, Christopher Grandy, Hussein Khalil; title: Part V: Thermonuclear fusion; title: Historical origins and development of fusion research / Stephen O. Dean; title: Plasma physics and engineering / Francesco Romanelli; title: Fusion technology / Lester M. Waganer; title: ITER - an essential and challenging step to fusion energy / Charles C. Baker; title: Power plant projects / Laila A. El-Guebaly; title: Safety and enrironmental features / Lee Cadwallader, Laila A. El-Guebaly; title: Internal fusion energy technology / Rokaya A. Al-Ayat, Edward I. Moses, Rose A. Hansen; title: Hybrid nuclear reactors / Jose M. Martinez-Val [et. al.]; title: Fusion maintenance systems / Lester M. Waganer; title: Fusion economics / Lester M. Waganer; title: Part VI: Low-energy nuclear reactions; title: Development of low-energy nuclear reaction research / Steven B. Krivit; title: Low-energy nuclear reactions: a three-stage historical perspective / Leonid I. Urutskoev; title: Low-energy nuclear reactions: transmutations / Mahadeva Srinivasan, George Miley, Edmund Storms; title: Widom-Larsen theory: possible explanation of LENRs / Joseph M. Zawodny, Stepven B. Krivit; title: Possible applications of LENRs / Winthrop Williams, Joseph Zawodny; title: Part VII: Other concepts; title: Acoustic inertial confinement nuclear fusion / Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, Richard T. Lahey Jr., Robert I. Nigmalulin; title: Direct energy conversion concepts / Pavel V. Tsvetkov